Have your say on government e-petitions

Cancel all public gatherings to stop the Coronavirus

Submitted on Friday 13th March 2020

Rejected on Monday 16th March 2020

Current status: Rejected

Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)

Petition Action

Cancel all public gatherings to stop the Coronavirus

Petition Details

The U.K. Government needs to cancel all public gatherings because so far only one measure has been effective against the coronavirus: extreme social distancing.

Additional Information

Because the United Kingdom has been extremely sluggish in testing patients for the coronavirus, the official tally likely represents a fraction of the real caseload. But even if we take this number at face value, it suggests that we should prepare to have up to 10 times as many cases a week from today, and up to 100 times as many cases two weeks from today. Imposing social distancing will level off the number of new cases and increase the number of healed patients, compared to newly infected.


You can't sign this petition because it was rejected. But you can still comment on it here at Repetition.me!

This petition was rejected

The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:

There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign these petition calling for the same action:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/300885
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/301397

You can find out more about coronavirus and how you can protect yourself and others here:

NHS website: www.nhs.uk/conditions/coronavirus-covid-19/

UK Government website: www.gov.uk/guidance/coronavirus-covid-19-information-for-the-public

Have your say on this petition!

comments powered by Disqus

repetition.me is a Good Stuff website

18.190.176.243 Mon, 17 Jun 2024 12:41:08 +0100